Automated diagnostic system and method including reuse of diagnostic objects
First Claim
1. A method of reuse of medical script objects used in the automated diagnosis or management of a medical condition, the method comprising:
- providing a plurality of disease objects, each disease object associated with a plurality of symptom objects; and
assigning a weight for each symptom, wherein a particular disease object may include a preferred weight for one or more preferred symptoms and an alternative weight for one or more alternative symptoms, wherein the alternative symptoms are selected from a set of archived symptom objects that are available for reuse.
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Abstract
Structure-based processing includes a method of diagnosing diseases that works by arranging diseases, symptoms, and questions into a set of related disease, symptom, and question structures, such as objects or lists, in such a way that the structures can be processed to generate a dialogue with a patient. A structure-based processing system organizes medical knowledge into formal structures and then executes those structures on a structure engine to automatically select the next question. Patient responses to the questions lead to more questions and ultimately to a diagnosis. An object-oriented embodiment includes software objects utilized as active, intelligent agents where each object performs its own tasks and calls upon other objects to perform their tasks at the appropriate time to arrive at a diagnosis. Alternative symptoms, synergies, encoding of patient responses, multiple diagnostic modes, disease profiles or timelines, and the reuse of diagnostic objects enhance the processing of the system and method.
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1. A method of reuse of medical script objects used in the automated diagnosis or management of a medical condition, the method comprising:
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providing a plurality of disease objects, each disease object associated with a plurality of symptom objects; and
assigning a weight for each symptom, wherein a particular disease object may include a preferred weight for one or more preferred symptoms and an alternative weight for one or more alternative symptoms, wherein the alternative symptoms are selected from a set of archived symptom objects that are available for reuse. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. An object based automated diagnostic system comprising a plurality of objects which interact to determine the diagnosis of a patient, wherein the objects includes at least one of:
- a disease object, a symptom object, a valuator object, a question object, a node object and a candidates object.
- View Dependent Claims (7, 8)
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9. An object based automated diagnostic system comprising a plurality of objects, wherein the objects include at least a plurality of disease objects and a plurality of symptom objects, and wherein at least some of the objects perform their own tasks and call upon other objects to perform their tasks at the appropriate time.
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